Essential Facts About The Computer Game Industry

[BFG]

The Entertainment Software Assocation has released its Essential Facts About The Computer And Video Game Industry for 2005. A compilation of sales figures, demographics, and usage data, the Essential Facts provide an interesting look at the changing profile of the average gamer.

- 75% of heads of households play computer or video games.
- The average game player is age 30.
- Women over the age of 18 represent a greater portion of the gameplaying population (28%) than boys from ages 6 to 17 (21%).
- Gamers devote more than triple the amount of time
spent playing games each week to exercising or playing sports,
volunteering in the community, religious activities, creative
endeavors, cultural activities, and reading.

according to IMG you can read the full report (in pdf) somewhere around about near here

[Toxic::Joka]

so we aren't 16 year old ubergeeks with no social life, yay. 

[BFG]

My thought was (Tigah and co. excused) where the heck are all the women!

[BTs_GhostSniper]

- 75% of heads of households play computer or video games.

Well, I fit into that.  I'm the head of my household.

- The average game player is age 30.

I'm 32!

- Women over the age of 18 represent a greater portion of the gameplaying population (28%) than boys from ages 6 to 17 (21%).

Well, my wife doesn't play games at all, so I don't know about this one.

- Gamers devote more than triple the amount of time
spent playing games each week to exercising or playing sports,
volunteering in the community, religious activities, creative
endeavors, cultural activities, and reading.

I don't think I devote that much time to gaming.  I maybe play an hour or so a night, even though I leave GameRanger on a lot more.  To balance that out, I work out at the gym an hour a night, I volunteer in the community several hours a week, I go to church 2 or 3 hours a week, I read at least an hour a night, and then of course I devote at least an hour a day to sex.  

[bronto]

I devote at least an hour a day to sex

you mean 10 minutes of sex and 50 of trying to catch your breath?

[(SiX)Sheixhundt]

No silly,

48 minutes of downloading,
5 minutes of opening and arranging looped clips on the desktop, (top left reserved for money shots)
4 minutes of furious 'action' then a 3 minute wipedown.

Force-quit is set to a hotkey...in case 'someone' pops in unexpectedly.

Bronto must not be married.

[c| Lone-Wolf]

Sheix it sounds like you have this down to a science. 

As for the spending more time playing games/being on the computer than I do excercise, interact w/ the community, so on and so forth, I admit this is true, however I still consider myself in fairly decent shape (though not stellar, I certainly have been better).

[BFG]

Force-quit is set to a hotkey...in case 'someone' pops in unexpectedly.

Expose (or rather anti-expose) is also a good one for the "move all windows out the way so u can just see the desktop" - removes all evidence in a flash - and with 'apple style' !!!

[bronto]

my god i'm surrounded. in all seriousness, if you stop beating off so much your mind really does get sharper.